A versatile artist and writer, Robert Sanabria is a creator of museum quality pedestal to monumental scale sculpture. Materials range from cast paper to concrete and metals fabricated or cast.

Born: El Paso, Texas, Education: BA, MFA, The University of Maryland.

Sculptor: More than 26 major sculpture commissions for municipal projects, religious institutions, commercial and private collectors.

Art Instructor/Lecturer: sculpture techniques.

Arts advocate: A past president of Artist Equity Association in Washington, D.C.; a founder and former Board Officer of the cooperative Touchstone Gallery, also in Washington; a founder and longtime Board Member of the Loudoun Arts Council in Leesburg, Virginia.

Author: Art-related articles and two books:Stewing in the Melting Pot: the Memoir of a Real American, published in 2001 by Capital Books of Sterling, VA; Paraguas Books of the United Kingdom published his novel, The Last Califórnio, in 2011.